base 2 or base 10.

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:38:41 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 28 March 2010 00:58, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I note with some amusement that Slashdot and several other sites
> >> are alight with the news that Ubuntu are about to provide the
> >> option to display filesizes in base 10 or base 2.
> >>
> >> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/27/1451238/Ubuntu-Will-Switch-To-Base-10-File-Size-Units-In-Future-Release?art_pos=6
> >>
> >> Any positive or negative reactions to this from the users here?
> >> Moving the buttons from right to left caused some people pain -
> >> how do you feel about this "improvement" to the UI?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I think it's a mistake because it might not be understood by the
> > vast number of barely functional MickySoft users moving to Ubuntu.
> 
> Those users will not care and it will not matter to them.  The
> difference is not large enough to matter to most people
> 
> Colin
> 
Put it into terms they understand and they /will/ care.  Would you
rather have 1000 dollars or 1024 dollars?

As a limited-technical guy, that is a no-brainer for me.

Cybe R. Wizard
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